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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility

Artuc, Erhan - 2012

A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. We investigate the role of occupational mobility on the effects of trade...

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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility

Chaudhuri, Shubham - 2007

We study a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows us to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, we can use duality techniques to study the equilibrium, and despite its simplicity a rich...

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Trade Shocks and Labor Adjustment : Theory

Cameron, Stephen V. - 2007

We construct a dynamic, stochastic rational expectations model of labor reallocation within a trade model that is designed so that its key parameters can be estimated for trade policy analysis. A key feature is the presence of time-varying idiosyncratic moving costs faced by workers. As a...

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Changes in the Structure of Wages : the U.S. Versus Japan

Katz, Lawrence F.; Revenga, Ana - 2021

This paper examines changes in wage differentials by educational attainment and experience in the US. and Japan since … wage premium has increased only slightly in Japan. In contrast to the large expansion in experience differentials for high … and college graduates in Japan from 1979 to 1987. Macroeconomic factors (increased openness, trade deficits, and labor …

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Wage Structures and Labor Turnover in the U.S. And in Japan

Mincer, Jacob - 2011

proximate reason for the strong degree of worker attachment to the firm in Japan. The greater emphasis on training and …. Using productivity growth indexes for industries in the U.S. and in Japan we test the hypothesis that rapid technical change … to Japan than to the U.S …

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Trade, technology, and wages : a tale of two countries

Jones, Ronald Winthrop - In: The American economic review 86 (1996) 2, pp. 35-40

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Shifts in U.S. Relative Wages : The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments

Baldwin, Robert E. - 2010

This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated compared to more educated workers between 1967 and 1992: increased import competition, changes in the relative supplies of labor of different education levels and changes in...

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Productivity Measurement and the Impact of Trade and Technology on Wages : Estimates for the U.S., 1972-1990

Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2021

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and nonproduction workers. Trade is measured by the foreign outsourcing of intermediate inputs, while technical change is measured by the shift towards high-technology capital such...

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Global supply chains and wage inequality

Costinot, Arnaud; Vogel, Jonathan; Wang, Su - In: The American economic review 102 (2012) 3, pp. 396-401

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Trade and Inequality : From Theory to Estimation

Helpman, Elhanan - 2012

While neoclassical theory emphasizes the impact of trade on wage inequality between occupations and sectors, more recent theories of firm heterogeneity point to the impact of trade on wage dispersion within occupations and sectors. Using linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that...

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